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Historical Event on 11/11/1980
The Hindustan Times says the 'British have reverted to what they basically are & a small, little people with small, little minds inhabiting a small, little island in the Atlantic.'
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/25/1989 | India's first super-computer X-MP-14 of US make was dedicated to the nation. |
| 4/11/1930 | Pandit Motilal Nehru renamed 'Anand Bhuvan' as 'Swaraj Bhawan' and handed it over to the people. |
| 1/16/1996 | Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala' case. CBI seeks sanction to prosecute them. L.K. Advani resigns from Lok Sabha membership. |
| 12/10/1993 | Kerala Congress(M) splits; Four MLAs, including Minister T.M.Jacob, expelled. |
| 4/11/2000 | Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'. |
| 9/28/1991 | Shankar Guha Niyogi, an active trade union leader of Madhya Pradesh, was shot dead by unknown assailants. |
| 7/19/1969 | Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidental ordinance. |
| 11/30/1999 | The disinvestment panel headed by G. V. Ramakrishna demits office after the end of its three-year term. |
| 7/12/1999 | Rajendra Kumar (71), legendary actor who acted in over 150 Hindi films, died in Mumbai. |
| 11/23/1983 | Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the seventh biennial Commonwealth Summit, meets in New Delhi. |
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